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- Total reviews
- 30
- Average rating
- 4.9/5
- Five-star
- 26
- Platforms
- 5
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Worth writing about
Been meaning to write this for a while, so here is the long version. I run a handful of things that are entirely lawful but that I would rather not have attached to my legal name, or sitting in a country where one email can switch them off. Finding a host for that normally means choosing between a shell company with nine flags on a map, renting servers in exactly the jurisdictions you were trying to leave, and something genuinely offshore that is slow, expensive and held together with string. This is the first one I have found that is neither. One country, hardware they own, and the company incorporated in the same place as the racks, which matters more than people realise.
Nine months in, the balanced version
Long enough now to give a fair account. Eleven deployments in total, nine of them completely uneventful: pay, wait a minute, ssh in. One Windows box took closer to twelve minutes rather than the eight advertised, which I mention only for accuracy since it made no difference to me. The one genuine problem was a dedicated Xeon that came up with a stick of memory not registering. I sent the console output, they swapped it the same day and did not argue about whose fault it was. Hardware fails, what matters is how it gets handled, and this was handled well.
An email address and nothing else
The signup form asked for one field. No phone number, no address, no company registration, no selfie holding today's newspaper. I used a throwaway address and paid in XMR, and I genuinely do not know what they could hand over about me, because they never asked for any of it.
The complaint got forwarded and that was it
Got a notice about a file on my mirror. It arrived in my inbox the next morning, copied out in full, with a line saying no action had been taken on the server. The machine never blinked. That is precisely what I paid for and it is rarer than it should be.
One country took me a while to accept
I came in wanting a location picker and left with a single option, which annoyed me for about a day. Then I read their reasoning about renting flags versus owning racks and decided they had a point. Chisinau has been fine for a Europe facing service. If you need a US or Asian edge you will still need somebody else, and that is the only reason this is four stars.
Tor exit is welcome here
Been running a reduced exit relay for four months. No warnings, no suspension, no passive aggressive email about it. The abuse mail that came in was forwarded to me and left with me to answer. Exactly as advertised.
They moved my old host across for free
Had about 400 GB sitting on a German provider I wanted out of. Support ran the rsync themselves over two evenings, kept the old box reachable until I had cut DNS across, and charged nothing for it. That is the sort of thing that keeps a customer.
Canary is real
Checked the warrant canary three weeks running. Signed each time, with a recent block hash in it so it cannot have been pre signed and left on a shelf. Small thing. Says a lot.
Root in about ninety seconds
Paid the invoice in Monero at half past eleven at night and the Reef box was answering SSH before the kettle had boiled. Ninety seconds or so from the confirmation landing, root already waiting. Nothing else to it.
Streaming without the takedown roulette
I run a small media service and my previous two hosts pulled the box first and asked questions never. Here the notices arrive in my inbox and the machine stays on while I deal with them. Six months in and it is still up.
Seedbox on the small Store plan
Two terabytes at 24 a month, seeding my own archive around the clock. Nobody has sent me a lecture about it, nobody has throttled the port, and the disk has done exactly what disks are supposed to do.
WireGuard exit for the household
Set up a WireGuard endpoint on a Cove for four of us. VPN endpoints are a permitted workload here rather than something you keep quiet about, which is the entire reason I moved. Has not gone down since March.
The 10 Gbps port is real
Pushed a 400 GB dataset off the Trench to a colleague in Poland and it held line rate for the whole transfer. No shaping partway through and no fair use letter afterwards.
21 ms to Kyiv
Most of my users are in Ukraine and Poland, and this is the closest thing to a local host that is not actually sitting under local law. 21 ms to Kyiv, 29 to Warsaw. Nothing in Western Europe comes near that for us.
Answered at three in the morning
Sent a ticket at 03:00 expecting a reply after breakfast. Fourteen minutes. It was a real answer as well, not a template asking me to reboot and try again.
USDT on TRON, credited in minutes
Fees of a few cents and the balance appeared before I had finished picking a distribution. Third top up like that now.
No trackers on their own site
Opened the network tab out of habit while reading the pricing page. Nothing. No analytics, no fonts pulled from Google, no cookie banner because there are no cookies. A company that practises what it sells about privacy is not something I run into often.
Thirty minute invoice window is tight
The invoice expires after half an hour, which is fine with Monero and slightly stressful with Bitcoin at a low fee. Mine lapsed once, I regenerated it and the payment was still credited correctly, so nothing was actually lost. I would still rather have an hour.
SLA credit appeared without me asking
There was a short network incident in the spring, forty minutes or so. The credit was on my next invoice before I had got round to reading the SLA to work out whether I even qualified for one.
Reef is the sweet spot
Eight cores, 32 GB and 960 GB of Gen4 NVMe at 39 a month runs my whole application stack with the database sat next to it. I have not needed to think about the box since the day it came up.
Transparency report reads honestly
The report lists requests received and what was answered, including the ones through Moldovan process that got a lawful response. A report admitting they complied somewhere is far more credible than one claiming a perfect zero.
Panel is plain
It does what a panel needs to do, deploy, reinstall, console, ISO, API keys, and it looks like it was built in 2015. I would rather have that than something pretty that buries the console three menus deep, but a graph or two would not hurt anyone.
First dedicated of my own
Went for the Ryzen 5 7500F at 79 because I wanted to stop sharing with strangers. Two NVMe drives, my own ISO, real IPMI, and roughly ten minutes from payment to console. It feels like considerably more machine than the price suggests.
Proxmox on the dual EPYC
128 cores and half a terabyte of ECC running about forty guests for a client project. Racked in around twenty five minutes and it has not missed a beat since. The /29 came included with it, which saved a conversation I was braced for.
Looking glass before I paid a cent
Being able to run a traceroute from their edge before ordering saved me the usual gamble. The route through Bucharest was clean and the latency matched what they publish, so I ordered with some actual confidence.
Not the cheapest and that is fine
You can find twenty dollar servers with more vCPU on the low end boards. What you cannot find there is a company that owns its hardware and sits in a country with no takedown statute. I keep the throwaway stuff elsewhere and anything that matters here.
seven months, no downtime
same trench box since january. not one unplanned reboot. the status page has been honest about the two maintenance windows there were.
Took a flood and shrugged
Picked up an attack on a game server two weekends ago, somewhere in the tens of gigabits. The filtering upstream caught it, players stayed connected, and there was no invoice afterwards and nothing for me to enable. My previous host would have null routed me for a day and called it protection.
PGP on support tickets
Put my public key in the panel and every reply since has come back encrypted to it. Tickets get purged ninety days after closing. Nobody else I have used bothers with either.
Custom ISO mounted without a ticket
Uploaded my own hardened Alpine image, mounted it from the panel and watched the install run over the out of band console. First try, no ticket, no fuss.
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